Sold!

The subjects came off our house sale on Saturday so now it’s official. Thanks to our awesome real estate agent, Shirley Nelson, we’re no longer home owners. To hell with the Joneses we’re the Brownes and we’ll blaze our own trails. We don’t want to play the game just because it’s what you’re ‘supposed to do’. That’s not very creative at all.

I feel a bit relieved, but will be more so when we find a new place to rent. As we suspected there aren’t a ton of places that allow dogs as far as I can see and it will take some searching to find the right place. Moosh is an older dog and not a problem at all, but that doesn’t help when it comes to renting. Landlords don’t tend to bend the rules just because you have a ‘good dog’.

We have some criteria for a new place. Here the list of things we want:

• dogs welcome
• no in house basement suites – condo apartments or townhouses only
• not on ground floor (not 100% firm on this)
• lots of natural light – better for plants and people
• soundproofing or concrete building
• two bedrooms or one bedroom and a den
• as many utilities included as possible
• dishwasher – hand washing sucks ass
• prefer in suite laundry but shared is acceptable
• few to no kids in building (especially directly adjacent)
• in Vancouver city proper close to the action
• ample parking (prefer secured)
• non-smoking (cigarettes and drugs)
• reasonable price

If any of you know of a place or places like this feel free to send suggestions to me at mikebrowne[at]gmail.com